As far as I know, everything is working just finebut I’m getting error messages each time the scheduled password checker runs. The log has a zillion of these:
var/cache/cracklib/cracklib_dict.pwd: No such file or directory
What should I do about this?
This is on my Sympl system
Seems to be part of ‘cracklib-runtime’ - so perhaps
apt install cracklib-runtime
is needed.
Then I would guess that you might need to look at update-cracklib.
If I recall correctly, there were some off changes in the cracklib-runtime package which can happen when you’ve upgraded, which means you may need to purge it and install it again:
apt -y purge cracklib-runtime
apt -y install cracklib-runtime
That should stop the errors appearing.
edit: @pcollinson beat me to it!
Thanks both. The cracklib-runtime seems to have been missing. I’ll have to wait for the next password check, which always nags about one insecure password - which seems to be as good as any other, but is considered inferior for some reason.